The Source of Our Reality

The Source Of Our Reality

Given that as human beings our conception of reality is everything that we experience and perceive, whether it is mentally or physically absorbed, and in some sense, the knowledge of that reality that we claim to have is derived from those very same experiences and perceptions. However the question at hand is that, although we may possibly agree on what constitutes reality; what is real and what is not real, we may not agree or even know what the source of that knowledge is and whether that building block is the correct standard to judge by. In other words, is the source of that knowledge derived from, perception through senses (sense perception), or is it founded on something understood by our minds alone, which consist of ideas independent of sense experience? Many philosophers have attempted to answer this question and that although on the surface may seem to be a very straightforward question, underneath it is the exact opposite. Some philosophers h...